Autograph letter signed : Carnforth, to Tom Turner, 1940 December 19.

Concerning his failure to get anything done owing to the war ("Living in a great historic moment is consummately uncomfortable; and even in moments of success and achievements the tension and temperature and pulsation of the blood excluded all thoughts of ones own work or other concerns."); enclosing a reproduction of Rothenstein's portrait of Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon; noting that, excepting a daytrip he took to Bingley on business, the war has been keeping them at home; responding to Turner's account of a meeting with Redwood Anderson and expressing his disappointment that a planned memorial volume for Lascelles Abercrombie has not yet appeared as well as his poor opinion of Anderson's latest book of poems, The curlew cries ("I wish I knew what to say about it, for my opinion is that of Basil de Selincourt and C. Day Lewis - yet my solution is not as easy to me as theirs is to them, for I always feel there is something wrong (as well as pedantic) in treating a man as though he is a criminal because his verses are not better than they are"); his opinion of C. Day Lewis as a poet of some promise; the relocation of students and schools in wartime; with further comments regarding Rothenstein, the Ricketts diaries, and T. Sturge Moore.